Submission Guidelines

Thanks for contributing to Unsplash! You’re awesome. To save you time and increase your submission’s chance of being featured, please ensure that your submissions meet our guidelines below.

Photos meet the minimum size requirement of 5 megapixels.

For a standard landscape orientation photo, 5 megapixels is at least 2500 by 2000 pixels in size.

Unsplash Photo standards.

We don’t accept unclear photos, photos containing excess noise, ‘spotting’ (marks made by water or dirt on the lens at the time the photo was taken), selfies, or shots taken on extreme angles.

Photos are original.

We do not accept composite images on Unsplash. A composite is an image that has been created using multiple photos.

If you want to submit a composite image that uses photos from Unsplash, you can do so at madewith.unsplash.com.

Examples of composite images

Photos are not over edited.

Our interpretation of over-editing includes:

Heavy vignetting

Over-sharpened

Over-saturated

Picking single colors out on black and white photos

Unsplash is a place to experiment with styles and people shouldn’t be afraid to try things that challenge traditional editing. Here are some examples of how people are expressing themselves creatively within our Guidelines.